Jim Schneider hosted this Crosstalk that featured news items that spanned the globe. Some of the stories included:

--Arlington National Cemetery is being told to recognize gay partners as being married.--Representative Tom Harkins says we don’t have a spending problem. He claims we have a misallocation of wealth/capital problem.--Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Hillary Clinton inspired his decision to allow women in combat.--Rahm Emanuel is said to be considering a run for president if Hillary Clinton decides not to run in 2016.--Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg says the Texas law that’s at the heart of the Roe v. Wade decision was the most extreme law in the nation. --The F.B.I.’s former top expert on Islam announced that President Obama’s pick to head the Central Intelligence Agency converted to Islam years ago in Saudi Arabia.--Harry Reid calls for expedited vote regarding Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense.--A.C.L.J. reports that Hagel is anti-Israel.--North Korea conducts its third nuclear missile test.--Iceland considering introducing Internet filters to prevent citizens from downloading pornography.--No exams on Wiccan and other pagan holidays at the University of Missouri.--On Valentine’s Day the Illinois Senate approved legislation that if passed by the House would create same-sex marriage in the state.--Homeland Security Department wants to buy more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition in the next 4-5 years for law enforcement in training and on duty.--France’s lower House of Parliament approves a bill to legalize gay marriage and allow same-sex couples to adopt children.--U.K. police officers to attend course teaching them to ask transgenders whether they want to be known as a man or a woman.--Hundreds or possibly thousands of patients said to have died from lack of care in British hospitals.--New Japan finance minister causes controversy with death comment regarding the elderly.--Texas bill (SB-303) would allow doctors to impose “do not resuscitate” orders on patients even if doing so would violate the patient’s express wishes. --White House not saying where President Obama was, what he did or who he spoke to between 5:30pm and 11:26pm on September 11th, 2012, while the Benghazi attacks were taking place--New Secretary of State John Kerry took a larger detail of security agents on a trip to Arlington, Virginia, last week than the State Department employed to its compound in Benghazi, Libya, in the days leading up to last September’s terrorist attack. --Judicial Watch released U.S.D.A. videos of compulsory cultural sensitivity training requiring employees to chant in unison, “The Pilgrims were illegal aliens.” --Since taking office in 2009, food stamp roles under President Obama swell to over 47 million people which exceeds the population of the nation of Spain.--New York hospital changes procedures so that pro-life medical personnel no longer have to violate their beliefs when it comes to abortion.--Pro-abortion Senator Frank Lautenberg from New Jersey will not be seeking reelection in 2014.--Parents of a Texas teenager are being sued by their 16 year old daughter who wants to keep her baby.